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Download free Blender add-on Bystedt’s Blender Baker
Updated: Neat add-on streamlines baking PBR textures inside Blender. Now supports thickness maps.
ArmorPaint 0.9 ships
Popular open-source 3D texture painting software gets a new Smudge tool, group masks, and better OBJ import.
Tutorial: Introduction to Ziva VFX – Volume 1 and 2
Volume 2 now available: master the Maya soft tissue simulation tool with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive two-part guide.
MoGen generates animation cycles in your web browser
Promising AI-based online app generates a huge range of walk and run cycles for humanoid characters. Try it free in beta.
Maxon releases Cinebench 2024
Significant update reinstates GPU benchmarking to the popular free CG hardware benchmark.
Unreal Engine 5.3: five key features for CG artists
Now out of preview: read our pick of the new features in UE5, from rendering OpenVDB files to the new Skeletal and Panel Cloth Editors.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.4
Big update to the digital sculpting app adds support for reference images while working in VR. Check out the other new features here.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 4.2
Material authoring and 3D capture tool gets new AI-trained texture-generation and upscaling toolsets
Check out free browser-based AI mocap tool Rokoko Vision
Successor to Rokoko Video lets users extract full-body animation from video captured on two cameras or smartphones. Still free for single-camera capture.
Eye candy: Chaos’s 2023 V-Ray VFX & Animation showreel
See the best new visual effects and motion graphics rendered with V-Ray - then check out technical breakdowns of the key projects.
Radical launches Radical Live
New AI-based service extracts multi-actor motion data from video in real time, and streams it to Blender, Maya, Unity or UE5.
Luxion buys Digizuite
KeyShot developer aims to provide users with a 'full-service design solution' though its buyout of the digital asset management provider.
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Dimension 5 Techs launches D5 for Teams
New suite of collaboration features for users of D5 Render include simultaneous multi-user editing.
Speed up animation with Character Tracker for Maya
Neat plugin lets you use game-like navigation to control 3D characters to block out animations faster.
Ynput launches free VFX and animation pipeline Ayon
Updated, now in beta: open-source framework connects VFX tools into a coherent USD-ready pipeline.
Boris FX acquires SynthEyes
Popular 3D tracking application's tech will be used across other Boris FX products like Silhouette and the Sapphire and Continuum plugins.
Nevercenter releases Silo 2023.4 and Milo 2023.1
Check out the new features in the lightweight 3D modelling app and its UE5-based real-time renderer.
Tutorial: Real-Time Character & Environment Lighting
Master professional lighting workflows in Unreal Engine 5 with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
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